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Germans don't want World Cup boycott, DFB president says

By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany does not want a boycott of soccer's World Cup tournament, the president of the German Football Association (DFB) Wolfgang Niersbach told Reuters on Tuesday. "We don't want to go down that route of a boycott – that won't accomplish anything," Niersbach said in an interview. "We don't want to get into a situation like with boxing where there are several parallel associations. That doesn't work." Following Sepp Blatter's re-election as FIFA president last week, the English Football Association's chairman Greg Dyke said his organization would support any boycott led by UEFA, the sport's European federation. (Editing by Ossian Shine)